4 Way Musicians Can Accept Credit Card Payments at Shows
By Chris Robley on CD Baby Blog You’ve played a great show. Fans are lined up at your merch booth. You’re taking cash, making change, and signing CDs. Then a guy walks. Continue reading
6 Ways To Kill Your Music Career
By Bobby Borg on Sonicbids Blog Most artists spend months writing, recording, and finalizing their songs, merch, and live performances for the marketplace, only to make repeated mistakes when it comes to promoting themselves. Don't let this be you. Here are six career-killing. Continue reading
ToneDen Adds Social Features and Downloads For SoundCloud Follows To Music Marketing Platform
ToneDen has come quite a ways since launching out of beta in February. The site offers a number of features like EPKs and artist profile pages plus tools like embeddable. Continue reading
Fader: New Editor-in-Chief, International Expansion, Future Fader Festival
Fader has a new Editor-in-Chief, Naomi Zeichner, and she intends to keep print going strong while beefing up editorial content on the web. Fader is also expanding internationally. They've been. Continue reading
Spin Editor-in-Chief Craig Marks Exits As SpinMedia Receives $7.5 Million In Funding
A "restructuring" is in progress as now former Spin Editor-in-Chief Craig Marks is out. Marks says that, though his recent time at Spin was brief, he had a positive experience. Continue reading
Music Beats All Mobile App Categories As Time In App Increases 79%
Localytics, an app analytics and marketing company, crunches a lot of numbers. They took stats from the last year and looked at "time in app" as a metric for comparing. Continue reading
City Of Austin Advised To Reign In SXSW-Related Events and Traffic In Evaluation Report
Unofficial events occurring during SXSW, especially the "Spring Music Festival" portion, can expect closer examination when requesting permits next year if the recommendations of a report to the City of. Continue reading
Learn From and Win A Business Meeting With Warped Tour’s Kevin Lyman
Kevin Lyman is best known for founding Warped Tour, one of many tours and festivals with which he's been associated. He's finding multiple ways to share the knowledge he's accumulated. Continue reading
Live Nation’s Ticketmaster Acquires Eventjoy D.I.Y. Ticketing Platform
Live Nation's Ticketmaster has acquired mobile-based DIY ticketing platform, Eventjoy for an undisclosed sum. The move will help the ticketing giant compete with Eventbrite in the growing non-traditional venue and event. Continue reading
Linkfire: “Smart Links For Music Marketing”
Linkfire is a promising new service that creates "smart links for music marketing." Smart links allow you to use one link that can direct people to a specific url based. Continue reading
